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By comparison, the maximum term for murder and rape in Russia is 15 years. Kara-Murza's conviction is the longest sentence for political activity since the fall of the Soviet Union, and the length of the sentence is comparable only to Stalin's purges in the 1930s. [96] Kara-Murza compared his case to show trials from the Stalin era. [97]
Kara-Murza was arrested in Moscow in April 2022, two months after Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, for giving speeches around the world about the war crimes Russia’s forces ...
Kara-Murza continued his Grani programme, which enjoyed some of the highest viewer ratings on Russian television. In June 2003, TVS, Russia's last independent television channel, was removed from the air by order of the Press Ministry. From August 2003, Kara-Murza was the evening news anchor at RTVi channel.
Kara-Murza, 43, has emerged as one of the most prominent opposition voices in exile since his release from prison, where he was serving a 25-year treason sentence for publicly opposing the war in ...
The charges against the dual Russian-British citizen stem from a March 2022 speech to the Arizona House of Representatives in which he was critical of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Kara-Murza, who twice survived poisonings that he blamed on Russian authorities, has rejected the charges against him as punishment for standing up to ...
Vladimir Kara-Murza was handed a 25-year sentence in a Siberian penal colony for speaking out against the war in Ukraine . He is now free
Kara-Murza, who holds Russian and British citizenship, was jailed for 25 years in April for treason and spreading "false information" about Russia's war in Ukraine. The 41-year-old is one of a ...
Kara-Murza called investigators' claims that they had looked into the murders and interviewed witnesses "a direct, documented lie" in court, speaking via video link from the Siberian prison where ...